Mobile Application for Controlling Outdoor Grill

2. The outdoor cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one controller of the outdoor cooking appliance to, in response to receiving one or more communications to perform a custom cooking cycle from the one or more remote computing systems, initiate the custom cooking cycle.

4. The outdoor cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one controller of the outdoor cooking appliance to further adjust an amount of solid fuel to be delivered to the combustion area of the outdoor cooking appliance based on one or more of a time interval identified in a user-selected recipe or temperature data received from a temperature probe of the outdoor cooking appliance.

5. The outdoor cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the outdoor cooking appliance to communicate directly with the one or more remote computing systems via an access point within range of the outdoor cooking appliance.

7. The cloud computing system of claim 6, wherein the received control information relates to igniting the outdoor cooking appliance.

8. The cloud computing system of claim 6, wherein determining a location of the remote device relative to the outdoor cooking appliance comprises determining the location of the remote device based on a determined global positioning system (GPS) location of the remote device.

9. The cloud computing system of claim 6, wherein determining a location of the remote device relative to the outdoor cooking appliance comprises determining the location of the remote device based on a BLUETOOTH® geo-fence.

10. The cloud computing system of claim 6, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the cloud computing system to receive usage data from the outdoor cooking appliance.

12. The cloud computing system of claim 6, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the cloud computing system to transmit the control information to the outdoor cooking appliance to cause additional solid fuel to be provided into the combustion area.

13. The cloud computing system of claim 6, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the cloud computing system to perform remote diagnostics on the outdoor cooking appliance.

14. The cloud computing system of claim 6, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the cloud computing system to predict problems for one or more components of the outdoor cooking appliance.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising initiating the software application on the remote device, wherein the software application is associated with the outdoor cooking appliance.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more remote computing systems comprises a cloud computing platform.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more remote computing systems comprises one or more of a data analytics system, a third-party advertisement system, a remote diagnostic system, an eCommerce service, a social media network, or a customer service system.